| Description | 3d. Miscellaneous and Unidentified Drawings. Mar. 1865, Feb. 1871, Aug. 1875, Feb. 1876. 18 items.
Hydraulic machinery and parts, other firms' machinery etc.
8 inch cylinder hydraulic machine for tube drawing - partially coloured tracing, Mar. 1865; force pump for The Crew Coal & Iron Co., Madely and Leyatt Collieries - coloured tracing, 15 Feb. 1871; safety valves and details to force pumps - copy on blueprint paper, Feb. 1876; plan and elevations of a draw bench [?] - tracing stamped Samuel Platt, King's Hill Foundry, Wednesbury; valve gear for hydraulic press - partially coloured drawing; parts of hydraulic machinery including ram etc., parts of pump and press etc. - pencil drawings; plan and sections of horizontal pumps [?] - coloured drawing; ram [or shaft?] - copy on blueprint paper. Some of these drawings may have been made for W. C. Stiff.
Other firms' machinery:
Alexander & Son, Circencester, arrangement of pumps etc. for hydraulic press - copy on blueprint paper, Aug. 1875; Hugh Smith & Co., Possil Engine Works, Glasgow, Smith's Patent Hydraulic Boiler Flanging Machine - printed advertising leaflet; Ralph Hart Tweddell's Improved Hydraulic Rivetting Machinery (made by Thompson Boyd & Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne) - printed advertising leaflet and picture; "Hydraulic rivetting" - cutting re Tweddell's machinery; plan of a 5 inch valve box - tracing marked "John Abbott & Co., Gateshead on Tyne, Makers of Hydraulic Cylinders"; business card for G. B. Martin of the British Tube Co. Ltd., Birmingham; original portfolio cover. |